Democrats Say They Didn't Back Wiretapping

Yahoo (AP) ^ | 12/20/2005 | KATHERINE SHRADER

[The_Victor]

The MSM continues to defend the democRATs. But it is interesting to note that after you finish reading past Rockefeller's lies, most of the democRATs admit they recieved the briefings. But of course the MSM will never put that in the first paragraph.

[Tarpon]

War is for protecting your life, not your civil liberties. Some day, liberals will understand what is going on. I assume they also missed the speeches by Iran's new head that calls for the extermination of Israel and the U.S. It's fine with me, as long as they start with Hollywood.

My guess, the intelligence was officially gathered by a 'foreign agent' and passed to the U.S. The NSA loophole -- deal with it. All you need is a foreign agent at the controls of the NSA phone call eavesdrop console.

BTW, if you read the 9/11 Omission report they cite FISA as being too slow and cumbersome for fighting terrorists in the new information age.

I guess we need another "see he didn't connect the dots" event before liberals will finally get it. Only reason I can come up with for why liberals are hampering the dot connecting.

Hey defeatists -- It's a war. Get it? The terrorists want to kill us all? Get it yet?

Liberals are not to be trusted with the defense of the country.

[bkepley]

I can't believe that even Democrats are stupid enough to think attacking Bush for this will increase their chances in the next election.

[Williams]

Half of the dems won't even admit getting the briefings, fools like Graham claim they don't remember. You want to trust these cowards with the national security?

[syriacus]

"I feel unable to fully evaluate, much less endorse, these activities," West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, said in a handwritten letter to Vice President Dick Cheney in July 2003.

John D. Rockefeller, III sure has a slow mind, doesn't he?

[philo]

They think they've finally found something to impeach Bush with.
Turley on BOR last night and one of the Dem Reps hinted to just this thing yesterday.

[BallyBill]

Yes, Democrats please jump on this bandwagon. Just like they jumped on the torture bandwagon, until a poll comes out that most people value the safety of their families more than the rights of the enemy.

What a bunch of losers and liars!

[Stark_GOP]

"I voted for it, before I voted against it."

[Semper Paratus]

They're admitting again they were too dense to understand what was being briefed just as they admitted not understanding the war resolution they passed in 2002.

Should reconsider which party should be called the 'Stupid Party'.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

If one is functioning in the real world, and not moon-bat LaLa land, it's easy to see that this is total BS because thad they been opposed they would have leaked this 4 years ago. That they didn't do this is proof that they had no problem with it. That's the way Washington works.

[Vasilli22]

They supported the wire tap before they were against the wire tap.

[goldstategop]

Right. The same people who never read the intelligence briefings. Dumb as Ox Democrats.
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(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[sd-joe]

>> "fools like Graham claim they don't remember" <<

Isn't Graham the nut job that kept a detailed daily diary of everything he did, every day.

[The_Victor]

Should reconsider which party should be called the 'Stupid Party'.

"Stuck on stupid."

[newconhere]

It is amazing to me the people that we send to Congress have no knowledge of what their job is. I have heard more Congress people say "I didnt know, understand, read..." Its scary. What have we done to ourselves? God Help Us

[TNCMAXQ]

If any of the attacks that were thwarted by this "spying" had actually gone ahead and gotten Americans killed, every one of these Dems would have been screaming that Bush did not act!

[stocksthatgoup]

"I feel unable to fully evaluate, much less endorse, these activities," West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, said in a handwritten letter to Vice President Dick Cheney in July 2003. "As you know, I am neither a technician nor an attorney."

Why is this guy on the intelligence committee?

[Sthitch]

This was such a poorly thought out article, it was almost too painful to read. The idea that "some Republicans" have concerns, and then mention one name, and it was shocking to see that it was Arlen Specter. The author takes every chance she can find to make gratuitous attacks against the administration, including the death count in Iraq. I guess I should expect this level of "reporting" from the AP.

[Just mythoughts]

Wait a minute these liberals did not give a rat's hairy behind when Clintons were wiretapping, collecting FBI files and that ABLE DANGER data mining for their own political purposes.

We got some mental defects being exposed for them to start claiming they do not back wiretapping.

[NYCVirago]

Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has promised hearings next year and said he would ask Bush's Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, his views of the president's authority for spying without a warrant.

Why, again, did Bush prop up this guy against Toomey, and then not get rid of him as Judiciary chairman after the election?